BACK OF THE ENVELOPE What I knew was that if and when I became non-sighted, I wanted to encounter and understand braille as a literary rubato as opposed to a lack. BACK OF THE ENVELOPE Biomedicine is a shameless Cartesian purgatory committed to betraying Black bodies the way it betrayed my mother. 
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Rana Ibrahim
Rana Ibrahim is a scholar and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a Callaloo Fellow currently pursuing her B.A. in Comparative Literature at Emory University. Her writing has been published by, or is forthcoming in, Harvard University's Transition Magazine, The Volta, The Baltimore Sun, The Feminist Wire, Entropy: New Fiction, Entropy: Variations on a Theme, Enclave, Moonsick Magazine, Acro Collective, Emory’s Black Star Magazine, Emory’s Philosophy Review, and Emory’s Undergraduate Research Journal. She is also the Founding Editor of the literary journal Subjugated Knowledge. When she is not reading or writing, Rana spends much of her time studying performance art and neuroscience.
